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Did the Orders Majoris that went missing simply get left out of the book or were they mentioned as missing?

Penitent Engines given the killa-kan/deff dread treatment would be better than Christmas.

I doubt GW would go ahead and release stop-gap pdf codices. It just isn't their policy and they wouldn't like dealing with all the fan whinery anyway.

There used to be six Orders Majoris; the rule book now states there are three, but there is no explanation to what happened to the missing three.

Elric of Grans wrote:There used to be six Orders Majoris; the rule book now states there are three, but there is no explanation to what happened to the missing three.

Eaten by Zoats on the eastern fringe which were subsequently destroyed by Squats who were then consumed in retribution by the Tyranids who then promptly forgot everything these three races could do when designing their next codices.

Kroothawk wrote:This is a subforum for posting news and rumours, not for starting a thread just asking for news and rumours more than 1 year ahead of a possible release. We know that no current army will be squatted again, we know that all armies get plastic standards. Brimstone RIP and Harry even made some first hints, with at least Grey Knights plastic models already spotted. But with the current GW rumour policy, noone can give more substantial information now and get away with it.

So your answer would be "no" - you don't have anything substantial to offer to the conversation other than speculations and false accusations. I will admit that your specualtions are based on a solid "trend" in the industry and have some merit, but they are still an opinion. So - again - your answer to my question is "no."

And again, your post is filled with "we all know" comments. Is this "we" a special society of privileged 40K players? Do you guys have a secret handshake and uniforms? Dude...we don't "all know" what you consider to be common knowledge in the community and as a result may ask questions that seem redundant to you and your buddies. I apologize if this - for God knows what reason - offends you or incoveniences you, but it was an honest question. Maybe you should look back at the first page and read the original question again...

I don't understand why you're getting so upset about this anyway. I posed a question that the community is obviously interested in.

FlightMek wrote:And again, your post is filled with "we all know" comments. Is this "we" a special society of privileged 40K players? Do you guys have a secret handshake and uniforms?

Off topic, but that would be freakin' awesome

Elric of Grans wrote:There used to be six Orders Majoris; the rule book now states there are three, but there is no explanation to what happened to the missing three.

I think the missing three were turned into Minor Orders. Can't say for sure as my Witch Hunters codex has vanished.

Elric of Grans wrote:There used to be six Orders Majoris; the rule book now states there are three, but there is no explanation to what happened to the missing three.

The Chaos Spawn come from somewhere.

No, in Codex: Witch Hunters there were still six. In fourth edition, there were still six. This has only happened in fifth, but there is no explanation.

FlightMek, you are starting to come across pretty agro; might want to watch that before the mods come down. As for the topic of contention, there are certain individuals in the fan community who are known to have access to information far ahead of the official announcements. For all intents and purposes, the secret community you are lampooning effectively does exist, albeit without the whole organisation thing. They see concept art, 3-ups, rules development, etc. From these guys, we know that Grey Knights and Sisters are in the works. We have also had official announcements to that effect, and Games Workshop HQ knows as well as anyone else what they are working on

Elric of Grans wrote:No, in Codex: Witch Hunters there were still six. In fourth edition, there were still six. This has only happened in fifth, but there is no explanation.

FlightMek, you are starting to come across pretty agro; might want to watch that before the mods come down. As for the topic of contention, there are certain individuals in the fan community who are known to have access to information far ahead of the official announcements. For all intents and purposes, the secret community you are lampooning effectively does exist, albeit without the whole organisation thing. They see concept art, 3-ups, rules development, etc. From these guys, we know that Grey Knights and Sisters are in the works. We have also had official announcements to that effect, and Games Workshop HQ knows as well as anyone else what they are working on

That simple statement would have been a perfect way to answer a logical and honest question....thank you. Where can I find the announcements? I would like to read them. Or is this an example of the speak-easy 40K underworld you referred to?

The official announcements, or the unofficial things?

For the official, they are all pretty old: search here or Warseer. Every time he opens his mouth, Jervis says they are not squatting anyone, so that is easy to find. A Games Day last year (the year before?), it was announced that Phil Kelly would be doing Grey Knights; Andy Hoare Sisters. No word on who picked up Sisters after Andy left. Last year, after finishing Space Wolves, Phil commented that he had started the Grey Knights and dropped that he was looking at introducing Jump Infantry. It has also been stated several times that they view the Inquisition as a mistake and intend to restore Codex: Sisters of Battle, while making Daemonhunters more Grey Knights and less Inquisition. HBMC has used every curse under the sun over this statement, so search this forum for that

As for unofficial stuff, this is mostly to be found on Warseer. These take some serious trawling to find, so I would recommend searching for posts by people like (as mentioned before) Harry and Brimstone. There was a thread on here where Brass Scorpion dropped a few vague hints, but that was locked some weeks ago.